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Miaskovsky: Symphony No. 10 [Svetlanov]





Wow, a 16:45 minute Miaskovsky symphony: some movements in other symphonies are longer than that! However, it makes up for brevity by packing as much energy, power, drama and tension as possible as well as beguiling contrast into it. This is an electric performance.

[aligreto]

If not, there oughta be!

Verily! !

[aligreto]

I agree Fergus. There is some interesting correspondence between NYM and his friend Prokofiev at the time when he was writing 'Silence'. Miaskovsky was quite despondent about completing the work ('...it [Silence] will eventually kill me!')

Thank you for that, Jeffrey. One wonders at this distant point why he wondered. It feels like such a complete early work.

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Thank you for that, Jeffrey. One wonders at this distant point why he wondered. It feels like such a complete early work.

It was only NYM's second orchestral work Fergus (Symphony No.1 was earlier). He had wanted to write a quartet but got nowhere. He wrote, in 1909, to his friend Asafiev:
...the piece will be monstrous, because of the music...not one light note, darkness and sadness...I am afraid that I will get tangled up when I get started on finishing the sketches and will die when doing the orchestration...I can't sleep. If only you knew how much I want to make this really good, so that it expresses all the horror and frightening features of this wonderful tale.

[aligreto]

It was only NYM's second orchestral work Fergus (Symphony No.1 was earlier). He had wanted to write a quartet but got nowhere. He wrote, in 1909, to his friend Asafiev:
...the piece will be monstrous, because of the music...not one light note, darkness and sadness...I am afraid that I will get tangled up when I get started on finishing the sketches and will die when doing the orchestration...I can't sleep. If only you knew how much I want to make this really good, so that it expresses all the horror and frightening features of this wonderful tale.

Thank you for that, Jeffrey. He need not have worried so. It turned out to be quite a magnificent work in my humble opinion.

[JBS]

I hope that you enjoy it as much as I have Jeffrey.

It's grown on me, especially the Viola Concerto.

[André]

Recorded in December 2011. Beautiful, but not quite the epiphany Haitink serves us with his epochal BRSO 3rd. That being said, this orchestra's string section must be among the most glorious ever to have played this music. I'll listen to the Haitink Concertgebouw version for a comparison - and will probably end up finding the COA had the most glorious horn section ever to have played this music  .

Favourite M9s include Maderna BBC, Ludwig LSO, Barbirolli BPO and Walter Columbia SO. The first 3 occasionally show their age - the Walter Sony is still fresh as a daisy, though. This works has been lucky on records.

[vandermolen]

Thank you for that, Jeffrey. He need not have worried so. It turned out to be quite a magnificent work in my humble opinion.

I agree Fergus - It sounds like he was just working himself up into a state! I'm currently greatly enjoying the Sinfonietta from 1929 on the same Alto CD as 'Silence' - it has a wonderful, and entirely characteristic, soulful ostinato passage which i can't stop playing. You will find the work in your Warner set.

[Que]

There is an older edition and they ask easely $400 or more for that one,if you ask me,it's absurd,only another casing.



I found this one for you,I don't know what the shipment will cost.

https://www.bol.com/nl/p/icon-michael-rabin/1000004011789418/?country=BE

I'm rich!   

[aligreto]

I agree Fergus - It sounds like he was just working himself up into a state! I'm currently greatly enjoying the Sinfonietta from 1929 on the same Alto CD as 'Silence' - it has a wonderful, and entirely characteristic, soulful ostinato passage which i can't stop playing. You will find the work in your Warner set.

Cheers, Jeffrey.
Continued enjoyment.

[JBS]

I'm rich!   

Someone apparently bought it because it's now

Niet leverbaar

[Traverso]

I'm rich!   

I'm glad you feel that way.

[listener]

Amy BEACH  "Gaelic" Symphony op. 32,  Piano Concerto in c#  op. 45
Alan Feinstein, piano     Nashville S.O.      Kenneth Schermerhorn, cond.
c# minor an interesting key for the concerto as it removes the use of open strings
and on an Ahrend organ at Landshut
BACH/MARCELLO, BACH/VIVALDI Concerto arrangements     MUFFAT: Partita in d, Toccata 12
KERLL Capriccio sopra iIl Coco      FRESCOBALDI Lamento sopra la dolorosa perdita
Heidrun Hensel

[Symphonic Addict]

I was once on a forum where another member was named after Eine Alpensinfonie, a work which he was obsessed by and had about 50 recordings of I think. The slightly surprising thing was that he didn't really listen to much other Strauss, it was only that one work that really appealed to him.

Tippett: Symphony No.2

A symphony I find highly appealing. Hickox is excellent. Tippett really did pen some of the most lush, beautiful moments in British music I think (here and elsewhere), not something that seems to get mentioned often, in my hearing anyway. Sometimes brief, but absolutely jaw-dropping passages that speak of a very intense heart behind all the complex, cerebral language he uses when writing about his music.

That's funny. Each has his/her personal approach to composers. In my personal case, I love Strauss' music.

On the other hand, Tippett's symphonies are really good. Do you know his 4th? A striking and intriguing work that needs several listens to be "understood".

[Symphonic Addict]

Very nice, Cesar. Looks like a lovely recording. I do wonder how it fares against HvK, Kempe, Sinopoli, etc.?

I'm only familiar with Karajan on this work. The performance/recording I listened to is slower and the lyrical passages are more accentuated.

[Symphonic Addict]

I bet this is a great recording, having heard both the orchestra and the conductor elsewhere, in other repertoire.

My first time hearing the piece (and I love it, too) was with von Karajan and Berlin, on a program with Stravinsky's Apollo (which I had never heard either). Karajan had his issues, to be sure, but never mind. Have loved the piece ever since.

--Bruce

Yes, I've heard other works performed by that orchestra under that conductor and they are pretty strong.

Did you attend that concert? or was it a recording?

[JBS]

The Clarinet Trio is a jolly quarter of an hour, while the Clarinet Sonata is softer, a bit melancholic at times.

Also on the CD

Fantasia in G for Piano

And two shorter works

Improvviso in d minor for violin and piano
Toccata for bassoon and piano

[Carlo Gesualdo]

Giacomo Carissimi: Eight Motet - Consortium Carissimi Garrick Comeaux (on Naxos). Don't know what to think of it yet, seem pretty music, Baroque Italian 17TH century. Would like to dive into baroque head first, perhaps will try the  three Motets CD on Naxos of Lully and the album ''Les Grands Motets', it's never too late...


Not that it's not my cup of tea, but I'm not specialist of this era and admit it freely, So slowly get into it, whit  some early German and Italian composers. Goodnight, perhaps will watch the Oscar's on television, even if I did not watch it for like ten year, no kidding 

[Daverz]

Danzi: Symphony in B flat major



A delightful work.  Being by Danzi, it of course has wonderful parts for the winds.

Bax: Symphonic Variations



I like this much more than the Chandos version, which was not one of their better recordings sonically.  Ashley Wass is really fine in the piano part.

[Karl Henning]

Stravinsky

Ballets, Vol. 6


Pulcinella
Orpheus